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The Vietnamese contestant in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant currently ranks second in the online poll on the pageant’s official website, after Miss Indonesia. The Miss University organising board posts photos and personal information of all contestants on its website and calls for worldwide readers to vote for their favourite face. With an average rating [...]
The Vietnamese internet security firm BKIS has been accused by the Korea Internet Security Center (KrCERT) of breaching Vietnamese and international rules during its investigation of attacks on US and Korean servers. A BKIS team was the first to trace the attacks to master servers in the UK. BKIS denies it has broken any rules. [...]
With 73.2 million mobile phone subscribers by March 2009, Vietnam holds sixth position for the number of mobile phone users in Asia. China and India secure the first and the second positions, with 644.8 and 391.6 million subscribers. The two countries account for 1.04 billion subscribers of the world’s total number of 4.15 billion. The [...]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed a decision to appoint some new Deputy Ministers for the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Specifically, Nguyen Nam Hai, General Director of the Vietnam Tobacco Corporation, is appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Trade. Nguyen Tien Dinh, [...]
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) concluded their annual meeting yesterday after focusing mainly on ways to tackle emerging regional problems and implementing the ASEAN Charter. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem (fifth from right) with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and other ASEAN foreign ministers at the [...]
The HCM City Art Association on July 18 opened an exhibition of late painter Luu Cong Nhan to commemorate his 2nd death anniversary (July 21, 2007 – July 21, 2009) at its headquarters. A painting displayed at Luu Cong Nhan’s exhibition. The exhibition displays 57 paintings in the collection of Do Huy Bac. All of [...]
Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu (first from the left) visits an A/H1N1 patient in Hanoi. Three teachers and 19 students at Ngo Thoi Nhiem private high school in District 9, HCM City were diagnosed with the A/H1N1 flu on July 19. This is the largest outbreak of swine flu in a single location in Vietnam, [...]
Talks between the representatives of Manuel Zelaya, deposed president of Honduras, and representatives of the post-coup regime ended without any agreement. Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias (2nd L) stands with Carlos Lopez (L), representative for Honduras’ interim President Roberto Micheletti, Rixi Moncada and Aristedes Mejia (R), representatives for deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, after negotiations [...]
Renowned Chinese scholar Ji Xianlin was cremated here on Sunday. Chinese leaders including Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun and Li Keqiang attended his cremation ceremony. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao bids farewell to renowned Chinese scholar Ji Xianlin during Ji’s cremation ceremony at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, capital of China, July 19, 2009. [...]
The forest fire in Kelowna, Canada’s western province of British Columbia (B.C.), is spreading rapidly, forcing emergency evacuation of 6,500 homes and damaging nine houses, the provincial Ministry of Forests said Sunday. A forest fire burns on the edge of Kelowna, British Columbia, northeast of Vancouver at dawn July 19, 2009. A fast-growing wild fire [...]